Madame Édouard Bernier (Marie-Octavie-Stéphanie Laurens, 1838–1920)
Auguste Renoir · 1871 · Oil on canvas
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About this picture
Madame Édouard Bernier (Marie-Octavie-Stéphanie Laurens, 1838–1920) is a public-domain painting by Auguste Renoir, dated 1871. Oil on canvas. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Madame Édouard Bernier (Marie-Octavie-Stéphanie Laurens, 1838–1920)” (1871) is the kind of picture Renoir built from soft, decorative color, first learned while he painted porcelain.
About the artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was a French Impressionist painter of figures, dance halls, and later warm nudes and still lifes. He trained as a porcelain painter, which shows in the soft, decorative color.
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